Re: [SLUG] Re: How will MS use the FAT patents?

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Thu Jan 12 2006 - 14:17:36 EST


On Thursday 12 January 2006 14:05, Levi Bard wrote:
> > Yikes! I did not know they had ext2 drivers for windows. To bad. Opens
> > the door for a dual boot machines to hack the linux partition. It used to
> > be limited to the boot sector, which is bad enough.
>
> To be fair, anyone semi-knowledgeable who has physical access to a
> computer and a bit of determination can get into anything on the local
> HDs regardless of OS. With the rare exception of securely encrypted
> data.

I'm not concerned about physical access.

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Steve Szmidt

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